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Art Jakarta 2017


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IIn the Forest, 91x68cm, oil on canvas, 2016
LEE Woolim (1972~)

In 2006, Lee Woo Lim started to get attention from the critics in art world when he was selected as 21st century Kumho’s young artist. By painting
such realistic motifs as human and forest, Lee has been frequently crossing the boundaries of the real and surreal. The forest which is the
background of Lee Woo Lim’s work appears as a resting place, but at same time with unpredictable dangers. No one knows what actuallyhappens
in the deep, dark forest, and by constituting the strange tension Lee created the forest as a fearful place. Another series, water that is introduced
in this exhibition also intensively shows the similar purpose of the artist as the forest series. Unlike the calm surface of the water, both mysterious
feeling and unknown suspense are contained in the water which put us into fear.
Through the vague space, mixed with imagination and reality, the artist attempts to bring various emotions like comfort and rest, fright and strain,
dread and languor, and solitude into his work. The delicately and realistically painted humans in Lee’s paintings are unfamiliarly disconnected and
placed on purpose after the artist’s precise plans. Moreover, the staged settings as multiple appearances of the same motifs suggest that there is
coexistence of bifocal elements.
The intended direction of the artist is specified by the constituents in Lee’s paintings. The woods, water, stairs, flower prints and Dalmatians are
motifs of this exhibition, and such motifs stimulate the viewers’ curiosity. Lee Woo Lim’s work puts audiences onthe boundary of the actual and
surreal, because the patterns in clothes are painted systematically and flatly. Also, Lee seeks the unity of characters and motifs by painting
repeated patterns.
The characters in Lee Woo Lim’s paintings appear as lonely or they are of their back view. On the vague border, isolated people are represented,
and this depiction creates exquisite mystery and dreamy feeling which are distinctive features in Lee’s work. In his new works in this upcoming
show, Lee doesn’t stay in painting flat works, but he paints flowers as they came out of the patterns characters’ clothes. The newly expanded
patterns add cheerful movement to the work.


Education
2006 M.F.A. at Youngnam University,
2002 B.F.A. at Youngnam University
Solo Exhibitions
2014 Walking on the edge, Lotte Gallery, Seoul, Korea
Walking on the edge, Gallery LEE & BAE, Busan, Korea
2013 Walking on air, Fnart Space, Seoul, Korea
Walking on air, Gallery LEE & BAE, Busan, Korea
2009 Walking on a Dream, PYO Gallery, Beijing, China
Walking on a Dream, PYO Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2008 Love in Dream, CAIS Gallery, Hong Kong, China
The Space of Mobius, LEEAHN Gallery, Daegu, Korea
While asleep, Gallery sun contemporary, Seoul
2007 Dreaming on a Path Through the Forest, Gallery Wooduk, Seoul, Korea
2006 In the Woods, Kumho Museum, Seoul, Korea
In the Boundary Between Reality and Imagination, Han Ki Suk Gallery, Daegu, Korea
2005 The Third Space Debec Plaza Gallery, Daegu, Korea
2002 Dream, Han Ki Suk Gallery, Daegu, Korea
Selected Group Exhibitions
2010 Korea Tomorrow, SETEC, Seoul, Korea
CIGE Art Fair, Beijing, China
Seoul Art Fair, BEXCO, Busan, Korea
Must See-Must Have, N Gallery, BunDang, Korea
2009 Hong Kong Art Fair, Hong Kong, China
CIGE Art Fair, Beijing, China
Seoul Art Fair, BEXCO, Busan, Korea
Singapore Art Fair, Suntecsingapore, Singapore
Cheong Dam Arts Festival, PYO Gallery, Seoul, Korea
AHAF, Hyatt Hotel, Seoul, Korea
2008 Art Chicago Art Fair, Chicago, USA
Art Cologne Art Fair, Cologne, Germany
Hong Kong Art Fair, Hong Kong, China
TREND, Korean Art Center, Busan, Korea,
2007 Shanghai Contemporary Art Fair, Shanghai, China
Art Basel Miami, Miami, USA
CIGE Art Fair, Beijing, China
Singapore Art Fair, Suntecsingapore, Singapore
Sun Contemporary 0708, Gallery SUN Contemporary, Seoul, Korea
The First Storey, Desiger Joo Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2006 CIGE, Shanghai, China
Korean Young Artists Biennale, Art Center Daegu, Daegu, Korea
Korean art power of spring Exhibition, Opra Gallery, Seoul, Korea
Total . Art . Set, Gallery M, Daegu MBC, Daegu, Korea
21C Period and spirit Exhibition, Posco Gallery, Pohang, Korea
2005 CIGE, Shanghai, China
2003 Espace, Gallery M, Daegu MBC, Daegu, Korea
Awards
21st Kumho Young Artist selection
Public Collections
Seoul Metropolitan Museum of Art
Kumho Museum
Hana Bank
Korea Yakult Co.
93 Museum
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